Learn how to build a Grow Tower

Products used in these videos:

• 1 inch thin wall pvc pipe
• 3/4 inch pvc pipe
• 1/2 inch conduit (Optional, This adds rigidness to the structure from wind)
• Styrofoam buckets (Walmart's Styrofoam coolers will work fine)
• Coco Fiber (Growing Media)
• Metal Electrical Box
• Metal washer (This rests on the 1 inch thin wall pvc pipe. The first bucket rests on this washer.)

Grow Tower Construction Video:

Benefits of Grow Towers:

• The tower keeps the plants off the ground (protects from disease and some bugs).
• Grow more produce per sqfoot.
• Less water usage, Install 1 drip line into the top bucket and the water drips through all the buckets below.
• No weeds.
• Quick setup and tear down.
• Fruit hangs from the buckets and does not lay on the ground. Prevents early stage fruit rot.

Grow Tower Tear Down Video:

Chicken Habitat

Mittleider Method of Gardening

Building the Fence

Here is an update of the fence project. I hired a local landscaper guy to dig all my holes for posts. He charged $5 dollars a hole. Great deal!

Each hole was about 12 inches in diameter and 2.5 feet deep. This way I could add dirt to the hole to adjust height instead of trying to dig dirt out. Much easier this way.

I used string as a guide to help me make a straight line. I used a string on top for post height and one on the bottom side for the straight line. worked pretty well. I kept all post approximately half inch to an inch from the string.

Setting the post in a straight line. Look how perfect this is. I used 2x4's to keep the post perfectly level while the concrete cures. Each hole took about 2, 80 pound bags of concrete.

 

 

What is the Mittleider method of Gardening?

Things you need to start your mittleider plant food mix:

 

Help, My Plants Are Dying! Week 8 of seedling

Here are my tomato and cucumber plants. I think they are having problems. I'm not sure what to do.

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